Word: liquidated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wooden drill hall, bought from the Navy last June, into a mechanical engineering laboratory. The building has been re-lined for greater warmth and automatic sprinklers, foundations for heavy machinery and a complete drainage system installed. The building has been completely re-wired. Much of the apparatus, including a liquid air machine, steam and gas engines and steel testing machinery, has already been set up so that the building is now in active...
...dark hours of last night and early morning eight hundred soldiers of misfortune sprinkled their blouses with the familiar and odorous Carbona, patched up the rips in their breeches, turned their shirts inside out so the dirt wouldn't show, polished their shoes with liquid paint, and washed their faces for the great inspection. In time of peace, as Shakespere so ably said it, prepare for war. The preparation has been made...
...speculation is perhaps most important of all. A fifth point, which should receive greater stress than is usually given it, is that speculators, by making an active market, make it safe for banks to lend on goods that are being carried over to a later season--make bank loans "liquid." The speculator also, by putting up a "margin," protects the banks from risk in financing such operations...
...afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. As the funny men are funnier than usual when attempting to play the Great American Game, an even larger crows than attended the CRIMSON'S earlier victories is expected. The dregs of defeat will be diluted for Lampy's crew by a somewhat sweeter liquid, and the CRIMSON'S Cup of joy will be more than overflowing...
...comers. The numerous games including a broom and spade contest, "piff the piffles," and other innovations especially invented for this evening are in readiness. The fifteen piece band is playing "Tipperary" in its sleep, and the committee is with difficulty restraining itself from the enticements of the free liquid refreshments which have been bought in abundant quantities...